New International Version
Psalms 38:6
6I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
Psalms 38:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief.
Context of Psalms 38:6
4My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. 5My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning. 7My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. 8I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
Read all of Psalms 38Psalms 38:6 word by word
נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי שַׁחֹ֣תִי עַד־מְאֹ֑ד כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם קֹדֵ֥ר הִלָּֽכְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 38:6
- Psalms 35:14I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.
- Psalms 42:5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
- Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet— I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path— but they have fallen into it themselves.
- Psalms 145:14The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
- Psalms 6:6I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalms 31:10My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.
- Psalms 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
- Psalms 43:2You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
- Psalms 88:9my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, Lord, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
- Job 30:28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
- Isaiah 38:14I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
Commentaries on Psalms 38:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I am troubled - In mind. I am bowed down in body. I am altogether afflicted, and full of distress.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6I am troubled - Margin, “wearied.” The Hebrew word means to bend, to curve; then, to be distorted, to writhe with pain, convulsions, and spasms. In Isaiah 21:3, the same word is rendered, “I was bowed down at the hearing of it;” that is, Sorrow so took hold of him, that at the intelligence he writhed with pain as a woman in travail. So here it means that he was bent, or bowed down, or that he writhed in pain as the result of his iniquities. I am bowed…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-8The severity of God’s punishment brings anguish that affects every part of the psalmist’s being.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. The loathsomeness, corruption, and wasting torture of severe physical disease set forth his mental anguish [Psa 38:6]. It is possible some bodily disease was connected. The loins are the seat of strength. His exhaustion left him only the power to groan [Psa 38:9].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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